Force: PHYSICAL FORCE - The NYPD Files

Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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This page contains all allegations assigned to this category by the CCRB. Multiple similar allegations can appear for the same officer because a complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.

Officers With Complaints

2,239

Complaints

3,790

Allegations

4,849

What the CCRB’s Conclusions Mean

Substantiated: The alleged conduct occurred and it violated the rules. (Here is a breakdown of the types of discipline the CCRB can recommend. The NYPD can choose to ignore those recommendations. It has discretion over what, if any, discipline is imposed.)

Exonerated: The alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD’s rules, which often give officers significant discretion over use of force.

Unsubstantiated: The CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.

Officer	Rank at Time of Complaint	Officer Details	Complainant Details	CCRB Conclusion	Year Received
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Eustace Hunte	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gene Etoria	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jose Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mark Offenbacher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Slavinsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Ezequiel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Hairo Franco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Restaino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Marcy Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Benjamin Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2008
Scott Nuzzi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2008
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
James Lagaris	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2008
Luis Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Uske	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Juan Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Blas Colon	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Douglas Ayres	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2008
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Luis Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Adam Helschein	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2008
Robert Roda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Charles Ingrassia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Isaac Branch	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Cussen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ryan Dowling	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Goldrick	Police Officer	White male	White male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Keith Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2008
Charles Zwilling	Police Officer	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Matthew Wesolowski	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2008
Michael Fahmy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael Fahmy	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2008
Thomas Marksberry	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Vincent Trozzi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2008
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
William Diab	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Cesar Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Chanae Martin	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 64 years old	Exonerated	2008
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Theodore Lauterborn	Captain	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Felix Delcarpio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2008
Vincent Fontana	Sergeant	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Anthony Andino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jonathan Troncoso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jonathan Troncoso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Abdelmessih	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2008
Wilson Verdesoto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Nicholas Neve	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jennifer Lavelle	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jacob Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2008
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Albert Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2008
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2008
Timothy Brown	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2008
William Beattie	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
John Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2008
Gabriel Baaith	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Amaury Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
James Walsh	Police Officer	White male	White female, 80 years old	Exonerated	2008
Robert Obrien	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Daniel Staple	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2008
Julian Coston	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Timothy Harrington	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2008
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2008
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Cussen	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2008
Robert Roda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Exonerated	2008
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alfred Gallicchio	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008

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About This Data

For decades, disciplinary records of police officers in New York have been shielded from public view. After the state recently repealed the law that had kept the records secret, ProPublica requested and received a database from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of misconduct against NYPD officers. The database lists the name of each officer, the race of the complainant and the officer, a category describing the alleged misconduct, and whether the CCRB concluded the officers’ conduct violated NYPD rules. Police unions have opposed New York City’s plan to make public data about disciplinary investigations.

This database names about 4,000 of the NYPD’s 36,000 active-duty officers. Every officer in the database has had at least one substantiated allegation. We excluded any allegations that CCRB investigators concluded did not occur and were deemed unfounded. We also removed a small number of officers (62) against whom the CCRB had substantiated allegations, but whose substantiated allegations had not gone fully through the NYPD’s administrative prosecution process. The CCRB was not able to reach conclusions in many cases, in part because the investigators must rely on the NYPD to hand over crucial evidence, such as footage from body-worn cameras. Often, the department is not forthcoming despite a legal duty to cooperate in CCRB investigations. The CCRB gets thousands of complaints per year but substantiates a tiny fraction of them. Allegations of criminal conduct by officers are typically investigated not by the CCRB but by state or federal prosecutors in conjunction with the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau or the FBI. The NYPD’s own findings in cases in this database are not included here.

Read more about what we’ve included in the database and why, and see our answers to questions we have received about this data. If you have information about any of these officers or cases, please fill out our form.

All of the records in this data are from closed cases. But if you see an error, contact the CCRB. If the agency updates its records and lets us know, we'll do so as well.

The data used in this database is downloadable from ProPublica’s Data Store.

Source

This data was obtained through a records request made to the CCRB. It includes fully investigated allegations only for officers who were members of the department as of late June 2020 and against whom the CCRB has substantiated at least one allegation.